Pro tip: Look for a hospitality TV, they come in smart and non-smart versions. Generally they’re made tougher also. You do pay more vs a Walmart pos though.

Pro tip 2: Avoid the Samsung ones, their quality control is shit.

also don’t buy LG, as they design devices that will brick themselves with no way to recover the firmware and will simply tell you you’re shit out of luck

Do you know which models or years?

they did this to my two year old soundbar a year ago, which made the entire 5.1 setup useless since it’s all driven by the soundbar

I dont know I had my LG C4 for 2 years now and it’s one of the best pictures Ive had.

Oh yeah my LG OLED TV is fantastic for picture quality. although I’m still getting used to judder, and don’t know how to fix that on panning shots. no combination of settings seem to work for me.

but I bought that before the sound system and before I had first-hand experience of how few fucks LG gave about me as a customer

I usually just search for my TV models calibration settings. Either reddit or some av forum usually has some good settings that work for me.

I’ve had a Dolby atmos boxed 5.1 sound bar with sub and rear speaker from Hisense since I got it. I think maybe once a year it losses handshake but just restart everything seems to fix it

unfortunately nobody else’s recommendations have worked so I sat there rewatching several shots over and over again with different settings lol

Deeper protip:

Commercial Display

Best protip:

Don’t buy a TV

Be careful with commercial displays, the refresh rate might be ridiculously low.

And brightness is pitiful because it’s going to be on 24/7

Oh you can get 120 refresh rates on them

And OLED too

Just a matter of being willing to spend 5x-10x what you would for a data harvester

That’s fine if you only want to watch TV. For streaming you will either need to connect it to the internet or use some external device that will be connected. Most people will actually want to use streaming so “it’s dumb until you connect it” doesn’t really help.

The one big advantage is that it can be something you can completely control. A very tiny htpc or even a raspberry pi without the need of much storage that will forever work on floss and will never be remotely discontinued, show ads against your will, or sell your personal data.

People with technical skills can do many great things. For the rest it’s either smart TV or some set top box and internet connection.

Technical skills including:

• buying a micro or other sff PC
• hooking it up to wifi
• Connecting a wireless keyboard and mouse to use it.

Yes, those count as technical skills and there are many, many people for whom it’s too big a hurdle.

picking out a decent micro PC that actually works is hard.

Getting a pc install (presumably windows) configured in a way that will display in the TV legibly from the couch is hard.

Requiring a keyboard and mouse to use your TV from the couch is weird and off-putting. Most people won’t want to and some people will have difficulty understanding what they’re supposed to do with these objects

The technical competence bar for getting a TV plugged in and working is just ridiculously, ridiculously low, and that’s for a reason

Sceptre! They make dumb TVs! They’re great! More expensive tho

I have a Sceptre ultra wide that was priced much more affordably then its competitors. I’ve long searched for more Sceptre products with little success.